Sci-Fi + Fantasy

As she floated near the viewport of the Nautilus IV for the fourth day, Faye stared out at what looked like a giant sleep-deprived but pupil-less eye. In actuality, orange-red lines haphazardly scored the white surface of the moon. She had first seen pictures of Europa right after she turned ten in 2230—the same year she […]

I kept my demon summoning career secret from my girlfriend through six months of dating. But one week after I moved in with Diana, the fiction that I was just some goth chick with a job at the Wiccan bookstore went up in flames (along with five of her blouses) when an imp got loose […]

“No, thank you.” The demon inclined her head graciously. “Pardon?” The knight blinked. He was not prepared for politeness from demons. It went against all his training. He swallowed the rising lump in his throat. “To be clear,” he said, “are you refusing to surrender? Or refusing to move yourself out of that good woman […]

Dear past me, Happy eighteenth birthday. It’s time. Your time. Writing this letter feels so, so strange. Believe me, you won’t know what it feels like until… well… I remember reading this in Mom and Dad’s basement house on our birthday: 24th July 2028. I still have the original version of this letter, tucked away […]

Three weeks after Moxie VII died, Eleanor finally crawled out of bed, tossed her used-up tissues in the fireplace, and went out to the garden. Some of the fruit had ripened and split during her absence, leaving the gravel path streaked with drying slime. A black-and-white kitten, still wet and wobbly, mewled beneath the hydrangeas. […]

Pulp /’pəlp/ n. 1. A soft, moist, shapeless mass of matter. 2. A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and being characteristically printed on rough, unfinished paper. —American Heritage Dictionary New College Edition I can’t breathe. I can’t see. I can’t feel anything. I can’t fucking do shit. Am I still floating somewhere inside […]

Liesel felt herself counting them, one, two, three. In and out. In and out. One two three. Counting the breaths made it feel less like waiting and more like expecting.  “Is it sick?” Krista asked. Her little sister leaned close to her side. Liesel shrugged. “I think so.” She knew it wouldn’t be long. Moments, […]

It’s rare for someone to be born with a genuine gift. I certainly wasn’t. Only thing I ever saw in a crystal ball was my own reflection, not that it stopped me taking the coins off the hopeful and the hopeless. Maybe that’s why I’m still here, dead but not gone, trapped in the body […]

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The blood-splattered farce began as I was painting my toenails, about to complete the old fly-to-Saturn, come back as your own granddaughter trick.  Okay, the flying to Saturn part was new, but you know the drill: travel as far as you can, out where record-keeping gets shaky, bring forged identity chip, dump previous identity chip […]

This 21st century has been good to us, I remind myself, while Hans and I wait in the boardroom for the meeting to start. We’ve slotted half an hour—longer than usual, but this new product update matters. “You must be Wendy.” A woman with sharp heels breezes in, smelling like meat. “What you’ve achieved with […]

Someone left cat food in the extremely haunted basement trash room of my building and it made me so hungry I forgot how creeped out I was being down there for a second. So I hit up a photographer I modeled for a couple times to see if he had work for me, and he […]